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Antonin Scalia's body lay in a Texas funeral home Sunday and officials awaited word about whether they would need to perform an autopsy before the late Supreme Court justice could return home to Virginia. In the nation's capital, where...

Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily, citing family issues and disappointment with life in the frosty Nordic country. Europe is in the grip of...

Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns, but failed to secure a complete ceasefire or an end to...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has reappointed bitter rival Riek Machar as vice-president as part of a peace deal aimed at ending more than two years of war, state television reported. The civil conflict erupted in December 2013 after Mr...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 11, (THEWILL) – A teacher in Jazan, Southern Saudi Arabia opened fire on colleagues on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding two, state television reported. Saudi State TV quoted an unnamed police spokesman for the...

NATO ships are on their way to the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece crack down on criminal networks smuggling refugees into Europe, the alliance's top commander said on Thursday. Hours after NATO defense ministers agreed to use their...

Hundreds of protesters marched outside South Africa's parliament on Thursday hours before an annual state-of-the-nation speech by President Jacob Zuma, whom they accuse of corruption and mismanaging the country's flagging economy. Zuma's speech, scheduled to be televised nationally at 1700...

A riot and a fire at a prison near Monterrey in northern Mexico has left 52 people dead, state officials say. Another 12 were injured in the riot at Topo Chico jail that broke out just after midnight. Smoke was seen...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the US over its support for Syria's main Kurdish group. The failure to recognise the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist group was creating a "sea of blood", he said. Turkey...

Chad's President Idriss Deby has announced he will run for a fifth term in April's elections. Mr Deby took power in a coup in 1990 and later introduced elections. A referendum in 2005 scrapped a clause restricting presidents to two terms,...